Let me introduce a little slice of cultural history in paperback form:
What makes this book awesome is the former owner's apparent dislike of Peter Tork. I mean, it's not funny that he or she didn't like Peter; he was always my favorite. It's funny how thorough he or she was at defacing Peter's picture and even his name thoroughout the pages.
Let's start with angrily scratched X's on the cover:
Open the book and it is filled with crossed out pictures of Mr. Tork, ranging from a lazy "Peter kinda stinks"
to full-on PETER TORK ATE MY BABY!!!
Note how Peter's name is also crossed out on his chair. This person's hatred of the man who wrote the closing theme to the Monkees TV show spared nothing, including Peter's own biography pages:
Oddly, the book owner has circled the word "Chicago." Chicago. What could it mean? Is the book's owner (I'm sick of writing "the book's former owner" all the time, so from here on, I will refer to him or her as Spanky.) from Chicago? Does Spanky like to listen to the band Chicago? Did he or she take a really nice vacaion there once? Alas, we shall never have more insight into Spanky's psyche.
We do, know, however, that Spanky doesn't approve of smoking, as evidenced by this annotation of Davy Jones:
Here's a close-up of that lightly-pencilled in X:
This small declaration of anti-smoking is nothing compared to the streams of snot, horns and moustaches that poor Peter got in ballpoint pen. The defacing of Peter's images were done with such vigor that the pages were dented 3 pages later.
What did Peter Tork ever do to Spanky? What?!?!?
2 comments:
That is truly odd. Why Peter? Why?!? This would make a great Project Absurd post! ;o)
I'll take a wild guess here...:-)
One of his fat fans who overheard or was told how he often made fun of how many fat fans he had. Not particularly endearing on his part. LOL
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